IBOV 177,284 ▼ 0.61% IPSA 10,421 ▼ 0.58% IPC MEX 67,977 ▼ 1.78% MERVAL 2,707,869 ▼ 1.44% COLCAP 2,118 ▼ 0.22% BVL PERÚ 19,767 ▲ 0.37% USD/BRL 5.05 ▲ 1.49% USD/MXN 17.33 ▲ 0.10% USD/CLP 908.88 ▲ 1.38% USD/COP 3,791 ▲ 0.09% USD/PEN 3.43 ▲ 0.18% USD/ARS 1,395 — 0.00% USD/UYU 40.07 ▲ 1.92% USD/PYG 6,066 ▲ 1.38% USD/BOB 6.86 ▲ 1.77% USD/DOP 59.15 ▼ 0.50% USD/CRC 451.24 ▲ 1.96% USD/GTQ 7.62 ▲ 2.19% USD/HNL 26.61 ▲ 0.29% USD/NIO 36.62 ▲ 0.26% USD/VES 513.89 ▼ 0.66% USD/PAB 1.00 ▲ 2.16% USD/BZD 2.00 ▲ 1.59% USD/JMD 157.28 ▲ 0.43% USD/TTD 6.74 ▲ 1.22% EUR/BRL 5.89 ▲ 0.19% BRENT 109.26 ▲ 3.35% WTI 101.02 ▼ 0.15% IRON ORE 161.91 — — COPPER 6.30 ▼ 4.15% GOLD 4,562 ▼ 2.48% SILVER 77.55 ▼ 8.67% SOY 1,177 ▲ 0.21% CORN 455.75 ▲ 0.94% WHEAT 635.75 ▼ 1.74% COFFEE 258.75 ▼ 12.12% SUGAR 14.78 ▼ 1.40% ORANGE JUICE 170.05 ▼ 6.21% COTTON 80.33 ▼ 4.30% COCOA 4,109 ▼ 1.91% BEEF 247.93 ▼ 1.65% CATTLE 361.45 ▼ 1.67% LITHIUM 84.08 ▼ 3.30% PETR4 45.47 ▲ 1.04% VALE3 83.50 ▲ 0.76% ITUB4 39.70 ▼ 1.73% BBDC4 17.69 ▼ 0.84% ABEV3 15.69 ▼ 0.51% BBAS3 20.70 ▼ 0.29% B3SA3 16.70 ▼ 1.36% WEGE3 43.13 ▼ 1.35% PRIO3 68.80 ▲ 2.24% SUZB3 41.70 ▼ 2.16% RENT3 42.98 ▼ 2.18% AZZA3 19.05 ▲ 1.06% CSAN3 4.41 ▼ 5.16% RAIZ4 0.45 ▲ 2.27% PCAR3 2.26 ▼ 1.74% GMAT3 4.34 ▲ 1.17% PSSA3 47.92 ▼ 1.60% CVCB3 1.81 ▼ 4.23% POSI3 3.88 ▼ 2.27% SLCE3 17.19 ▼ 0.87% NATU3 9.94 ▲ 1.53% BRKM5 12.21 ▲ 0.49% RANI3 7.85 ▼ 0.25% CSNA3 6.42 ▼ 3.75% CMIN3 4.72 ▼ 1.05% USIM5 9.12 ▼ 7.79% GGBR4 23.34 ▼ 1.02% ENEV3 25.06 ▼ 3.43% NEOE3 33.80 — 0.00% CPFE3 44.52 ▼ 1.53% CMIG4 11.27 ▼ 0.09% EQTL3 38.59 ▼ 0.54% LREN3 13.55 ▼ 1.24% VIVT3 35.52 ▼ 0.20% RAIL3 14.97 ▼ 1.96% KLABIN 16.43 ▼ 2.55% RAIA DROGASIL 19.59 ▼ 0.25% RDOR3 34.84 ▲ 0.26% HAPV3 12.45 ▼ 6.11% FLRY3 15.60 ▼ 2.26% SMTO3 18.25 ▼ 0.82% UGPA3 29.13 ▼ 1.42% VBBR3 33.12 ▼ 0.81% BBSE3 34.12 ▼ 1.04% BPAC11 54.50 ▼ 1.61% CURY3 30.37 ▼ 0.75% AERI3 2.42 ▼ 0.41% VIVARA 22.94 ▼ 0.26% COMPASS 25.90 ▼ 1.89% VAMOS 3.41 ▼ 2.29% SANB11 26.92 ▼ 0.81% ASAI3 8.50 ▼ 1.05% SBSP3 29.03 ▼ 1.66% WALMEX 54.82 ▲ 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101.02 ▼ 0.15% IRON ORE 161.91 — — COPPER 6.30 ▼ 4.15% GOLD 4,562 ▼ 2.48% SILVER 77.55 ▼ 8.67% SOY 1,177 ▲ 0.21% CORN 455.75 ▲ 0.94% WHEAT 635.75 ▼ 1.74% COFFEE 258.75 ▼ 12.12% SUGAR 14.78 ▼ 1.40% ORANGE JUICE 170.05 ▼ 6.21% COTTON 80.33 ▼ 4.30% COCOA 4,109 ▼ 1.91% BEEF 247.93 ▼ 1.65% CATTLE 361.45 ▼ 1.67% LITHIUM 84.08 ▼ 3.30% PETR4 45.47 ▲ 1.04% VALE3 83.50 ▲ 0.76% ITUB4 39.70 ▼ 1.73% BBDC4 17.69 ▼ 0.84% ABEV3 15.69 ▼ 0.51% BBAS3 20.70 ▼ 0.29% B3SA3 16.70 ▼ 1.36% WEGE3 43.13 ▼ 1.35% PRIO3 68.80 ▲ 2.24% SUZB3 41.70 ▼ 2.16% RENT3 42.98 ▼ 2.18% AZZA3 19.05 ▲ 1.06% CSAN3 4.41 ▼ 5.16% RAIZ4 0.45 ▲ 2.27% PCAR3 2.26 ▼ 1.74% GMAT3 4.34 ▲ 1.17% PSSA3 47.92 ▼ 1.60% CVCB3 1.81 ▼ 4.23% POSI3 3.88 ▼ 2.27% SLCE3 17.19 ▼ 0.87% NATU3 9.94 ▲ 1.53% BRKM5 12.21 ▲ 0.49% RANI3 7.85 ▼ 0.25% CSNA3 6.42 ▼ 3.75% CMIN3 4.72 ▼ 1.05% USIM5 9.12 ▼ 7.79% GGBR4 23.34 ▼ 1.02% ENEV3 25.06 ▼ 3.43% NEOE3 33.80 — 0.00% CPFE3 44.52 ▼ 1.53% CMIG4 11.27 ▼ 0.09% EQTL3 38.59 ▼ 0.54% LREN3 13.55 ▼ 1.24% VIVT3 35.52 ▼ 0.20% RAIL3 14.97 ▼ 1.96% KLABIN 16.43 ▼ 2.55% RAIA DROGASIL 19.59 ▼ 0.25% RDOR3 34.84 ▲ 0.26% HAPV3 12.45 ▼ 6.11% FLRY3 15.60 ▼ 2.26% SMTO3 18.25 ▼ 0.82% UGPA3 29.13 ▼ 1.42% VBBR3 33.12 ▼ 0.81% BBSE3 34.12 ▼ 1.04% BPAC11 54.50 ▼ 1.61% CURY3 30.37 ▼ 0.75% AERI3 2.42 ▼ 0.41% VIVARA 22.94 ▼ 0.26% COMPASS 25.90 ▼ 1.89% VAMOS 3.41 ▼ 2.29% SANB11 26.92 ▼ 0.81% ASAI3 8.50 ▼ 1.05% SBSP3 29.03 ▼ 1.66% WALMEX 54.82 ▲ 0.53% GMEXICO 202.10 ▼ 4.45% FEMSA 210.39 ▼ 0.01% CEMEX 21.82 ▼ 3.71% GFNORTE 184.04 ▼ 0.98% BIMBO 59.19 ▲ 0.27% TELEVISA 9.94 ▲ 1.43% AMX 23.13 ▼ 1.11% GAP 413.32 ▼ 1.41% ASUR 296.14 ▼ 1.66% OMA 222.96 ▼ 0.70% KOF 180.84 ▼ 0.13% GRUMA 298.23 ▲ 0.12% KIMBER 38.28 ▼ 0.55% SQM-B 76,590 ▼ 2.06% COPEC 6,145 ▼ 0.08% BSANTANDER 68.99 ▼ 0.16% FALABELLA 5,500 ▲ 1.08% ENELAM 75.75 ▼ 0.89% CENCOSUD 2,060 ▼ 3.06% CMPC 1,055 ▼ 0.94% BANCO CHILE 163.70 ▲ 0.13% LATAM AIR 21.54 ▼ 2.53% YPF 65,000 ▼ 0.46% GGAL 6,060 ▼ 2.02% PAMPA 4,720 ▼ 0.26% TXAR 615.00 ▲ 0.49% ALUAR 940.50 ▼ 0.42% TGS 8,750 ▼ 0.62% CEPU 2,049 ▼ 3.17% MIRGOR 17,225 ▼ 3.23% COME 42.52 ▼ 1.51% LOMA NEGRA 3,105 ▼ 1.82% BYMA 272.25 ▼ 2.77% TELECOM ARG 3,505 ▼ 4.24% ECOPETROL 13.11 ▼ 0.87% BANCOLOMBIA 63.16 ▼ 1.83% GRUPO AVAL 4.01 ▼ 5.20% CREDICORP 316.31 ▼ 3.47% SOUTHERN COPPER 176.78 ▼ 6.22% BUENAVENTURA 34.29 ▼ 7.70% MERCADOLIBRE 1,547 ▼ 3.77% NUBANK 12.19 ▼ 5.72% XP 17.47 ▼ 0.74% PAGSEGURO 8.86 ▼ 1.66% STONE 9.61 ▼ 0.93% GLOBANT 38.87 ▲ 14.06% TECNOGLASS 38.61 ▼ 5.90% GAP AIRPORT 238.45 ▼ 2.15% ASUR 296.14 ▼ 1.66% OMA AIRPORT 102.84 ▼ 1.57% AMX ADR 26.59 ▼ 1.85% FEMSA ADR 121.38 ▼ 0.70% CEMEX ADR 12.56 ▼ 4.60% PETROBRAS ADR 19.93 ▲ 0.76% VALE ADR 16.32 ▼ 1.57% ITAU ADR 7.84 ▼ 3.21% SANTANDER BR 5.34 ▼ 2.11% AMBEV ADR 3.07 — 0.00% CSN 1.26 ▼ 6.67% GERDAU 4.61 ▼ 2.12% LATAM ADR 46.91 ▼ 4.79% BTC 77,879 ▼ 1.50% ETH 2,172 ▼ 2.32% SOL 85.87 ▼ 3.73% XRP 1.41 ▼ 1.91% BNB 653.82 ▼ 2.72% ADA 0.25 ▼ 2.94% DOGE 0.11 ▼ 4.12% AVAX 9.23 ▼ 3.22% LINK 9.65 ▼ 4.08% DOT 1.25 ▼ 4.96% LTC 55.74 ▼ 3.05% BCH 411.78 ▼ 3.46% TRX 0.35 ▼ 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Covid-19 policy: Leading Israeli immunologist writes open letter: “It is time to admit failure”

By · January 11, 2022 · 4 min read

Report by Swiss Policy Research

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL – Professor Ehud Qimron, head of the Department of Microbiology and Immunology at Tel Aviv University and one of the leading Israeli immunologists, has written an open letter sharply criticizing the Israeli – and indeed global – management of the coronavirus pandemic.

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Original letter in Hebrew: N12 News (January 6, 2022); translated by Google / SPR. See also: Professor Qimron’s prediction from August 2020: “History will judge the hysteria” (INN).

Professor Ehud Qimron and two members of his team. (Photo internet reproduction)
Professor Ehud Qimron and two members of his team. (Photo internet reproduction)

Ministry of Health, it’s time to admit failure

In the end, the truth will always be revealed, and the truth about the coronavirus policy is beginning to be revealed. When the destructive concepts collapse one by one, there is nothing left but to tell the experts who led the management of the pandemic – we told you so.

Two years late, you finally realize that a respiratory virus cannot be defeated and that any such attempt is doomed to fail. You do not admit it because you have admitted almost no mistake in the last two years. Still, in retrospect, it is clear that you have failed miserably in almost all of your actions, and even the media is already having a hard time covering your shame.

Despite years of observations and scientific knowledge, you refused to admit that the infection comes in waves that fade by themselves. You insisted on attributing every decline of a wave solely to your actions, and so through false propaganda, “you overcame the plague.”

And again, you defeated it, and again and again and again.

You refused to admit that mass testing is ineffective, despite your own contingency plans explicitly stating so (“Pandemic Influenza Health System Preparedness Plan, 2007”, p. 26).

You refused to admit that recovery is more protective than a vaccine, despite previous knowledge and observations showing that non-recovered vaccinated people are more likely to be infected than recovered people.

You refused to admit that the vaccinated are contagious despite the observations. Based on this, you hoped to achieve herd immunity by vaccination – and you failed in that as well.

You insisted on ignoring the fact that the disease is dozens of times more dangerous for risk groups and older adults than for young people who are not in risk groups, despite the knowledge that came from China as early as 2020.

You refused to adopt the “Barrington Declaration”, signed by more than 60,000 scientists and medical professionals, or other common-sense programs.

You chose to ridicule, slander, distort, and discredit them.

(Banned YouTube videos: How Israeli Ministry of Health deleted thousands of testimonies)

Instead of the right programs and people, you have chosen professionals who lack relevant training for pandemic management (physicists as chief government advisers, veterinarians, security officers, media personnel, and so on).

You have not set up an effective system for reporting side effects from the vaccines, and reports on side effects have even been deleted from your Facebook page.

Doctors avoid linking side effects to the vaccine, lest you persecute them as you did to some of their colleagues. You have ignored many reports of changes in menstrual intensity and menstrual cycle times.

You hid data that allows for objective and proper research (for example, you removed the data on passengers at Ben Gurion Airport). Instead, you chose to publish non-objective articles together with senior Pfizer executives on the effectiveness and safety of vaccines.

Irreversible damage to trust.

However, from the heights of your hubris, you have also ignored the fact that the truth will be revealed in the end. And it begins to be revealed. The truth is that you have brought the public’s trust in you to an unprecedented low, and you have eroded your status as a source of authority.

The truth is that you have burned hundreds of billions of shekels to no avail – for publishing intimidation, for ineffective tests, for destructive lockdowns, and for disrupting the routine of life in the last two years.

You have destroyed the education of our children and their future. As school principals around the country attest, you made children feel guilty, scared, smoke, drink, get addicted, drop out, and quarrel. You have harmed livelihoods, the economy, human rights, mental health, and physical health.

You slandered colleagues who did not surrender to you, you turned the people against each other, divided society, and polarized the discourse. You branded, without any scientific basis, people who chose not to get vaccinated as enemies of the public and as spreaders of disease.

In an unprecedented way, you promote a draconian policy of discrimination, denial of rights, and selection of people, including children, for their medical choice. A selection that lacks any epidemiological justification.

When you compare the destructive policies you are pursuing with the sane policies of some other countries – you can clearly see that the destruction you have caused has only added victims beyond the vulnerable to the virus.

The economy you ruined, the unemployed you caused, and the children whose education you destroyed – are the surplus victims as a result of your actions only.

There is currently no medical emergency, but you have been cultivating such a condition for two years now because of lust for power, budgets, and control.

The only emergency now is that you still set policies and hold huge budgets for propaganda and consciousness engineering instead of directing them to strengthen the health care system.

This emergency must stop!

Professor Udi Qimron, Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University

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